mev-toolkit/MEV_strategies/arbitrage

arbitrage

tl;dr

• in tradefi, arbitrage refers to buying something in one venue and selling it in another (through a series of intermediate transactions) for a higher price. this is note risk-free as prices can move mid-transaction. due to the nature of the evm's atomic execution, atomic arbitrages are possible (as opposed to tradefi): smart contracts allow the packaging a sequential execution of txs, for a set of conditions. if the conditions are not met, the execution can fail, undoing all the on-chain interactions that just occurred.
• since liquidity on-chain is fragmented (thousands of pools don't communicate with each other, each providing quotes for swapping assets in real-time), it creates an opportunity to buy low and sell high across different pools. for example, two DEXes offer a token at two different prices so that a token can be bought at the lower-priced DEX and sold on the higher-priced DEX in a single atomic transaction.
• non-atomic (cross-chain, CEX/DEX, etc.) arb are more profitable and less accessible due to capital requirements and risk profile.

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in this dir

• arbitrage patterns
• arbitrage algorithms
• cool arb txs in the wild

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resources

• anatomy of arber bots
• analyzing mev bot's arb, by et
• how to automate triangular arb recognition